Beschreibung:
Amiya Kumar Bagchi is the RBI Professor of Economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta.
A revealing investigation into the impact of capital-friendly liberalization on the fortunes of the working class in the Third World.
Acknowledgement; Capital and Labour at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century; The Economics of Business and the Business of Economics; Merchants and Colonialism; Reflections on the Nature of the Indian Bourgeoisie; Colonialism and the Nature of 'Capitalist' Enterprise in India; The Ambiguity of Progress: Indian Society in Transition; Wealtha nd Work in Calcutta: 1860-1921; Working-Class Consciousness; Dualism and Dialectics in the Historiography of Labour; Neo-liberal Economic Reforms and Workers of the Thrid World: At the End of the Second Millennium of the Christian Era; Predatory Commercialization and Communalism in India; Multiculturalism, Governance and the Indian Bourgeoisie; Index